358 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	380s BC  370s BC  360s BC  – 350s BC –  340s BC  330s BC  320s BC
Years:	361 BC 360 BC 359 BC – 358 BC – 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC

358 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 358 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Persian Empire

• Artaxerxes III succeeds Artaxerxes II as King of Persia. To secure his throne he puts to death most of his relatives.

Greece

• Alexander of Pherae, Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, is murdered by his wife's brother. This is by the wife's request.
• Cersobleptes, along with his brothers, Amadocus II and Berisades, gets the land of the Thracian king, Cotys I.

Macedonia

• Philip II of Macedon invades the hill tribes of Paeonia and beats them. His rule goes inland as far as Lake Ohrid.

Roman Republic

• The Romans defeat the Volsci. They take most of their land and settle it with Roman colonists.

Deaths

• Artaxerxes II, King of the Persia (b. c. 436 BC)
• Alexander of Pherae, Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, Greece
• Cotys I, King of Thrace
• Bardyllis, Illyrian king (killed in battle by Phillip of Macedon)